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good morning. iam good morning. i am out of the very front and to get this prized position you had to be here two days ago, at a 7am on saturday morning. it wont be long before this lot are inside. that is wherejohn and carol r. yes, good morning. the big news on day one of these wimbledon championships is the withdrawal of nick kyrgios. the beaten finalist last year and the amount�*s singles is out because of a wrist injury after what has been an injury ravaged season. and will it s...

it covers small and medium—sized companies which should give us insight into how chinas public sector is doing. 0n chinas public sector is doing. on tuesday australia central bank will be meeting and investors will be watching to see if authorities will hold steady or hike the cost of borrowing because of inflation concerns. earlier, ispoke borrowing because of inflation concerns. earlier, i spoke to peter maguire of xm.com and he said he expected to see movement from tokyo on the ja...

streets under siege, a dramatic outpouring of anger, after a 17—year—old, nahel, was killed by police during a traffic stop. many of the rioters are teenagers, out despite a plea from frances president to parents to keep their children at home. as the protests have intensified, so too has the police presence. across the country from friday into saturday morning, more than 115,000 officers were deployed stop and it is the police thatis deployed stop and it is the police that is driv...

and the rate of "core inflation" — which strips out volatile items like food and fuel — is actually going up. rising interest rates are piling the pressure on millions of mortgage borrowers here in the uk — who are facing steep rises in monthly bills. the bbc has been hearing from some of them. rebecca from greater manchester, craig in cambridgeshire, and rose who lives in hampshire. just three homeowners out of hundreds of thousands of people facing a huge rise in their mortgage...

hello, im mark lobel. ukraines president zelensky has arrived injapan, where hes meeting world leaders at the g7 summit. hes said that "peace will become closer", after the us agreed to train ukrainian pilots on american f—16 fighterjets, paving the way for european countries to supply the warplanes to kyiv. moscow said western countries will be running "colossal risks" if the jets are sent to ukraine. our political editor, chris mason, reports from hiroshima. the airport here has we...

vladimir putin, has visited the ukrainian city of mariupol. its the first time hes ventured inside territory seized by russian forces since last years invasion. his visit, under cover of darkness, has been fiercely criticised by the exiled council of the southern port city, which has seen some of the fiercest battles of the war. im joined now by the ukranian mp for kharkiv, maria mezentseva. thank you for being with us. what you make of this visit by president putin? well, nothing spec...

concerns and costs. hello, im anjana gadgil. in sudan, a brief humanitarian pause in fighting has just come to an end. the sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces had earlier agreed to a temporary ceasefire, though its unclear whether either side stuck to the pact. the world food programme halted its operations in sudan after three of its members were among nearly 70 people reported to have been killed. the head of the african union commission is planning to "immediatel...

to have been killed. international efforts to end the fighting are ramping up with the head of the african union commission planning to go on a ceasefire mission and the presidents of kenya, south sudan and djibouti also trying to mediate. frank gardner gave more details. there was a window of opportunity for a couple of years for sudan to make the transition from military dictatorship to democracy, but they blew it. and they blew it because of this rivalry and essentially what has tri...

humanitarian aid fails to reach them. and why you dont need to be fit to climb mount everest. hello and welcome back to bbc news. lets return to the story dominating today. rishi sunak has asked officials to... inquiry found mr raab acted in an insulting way to civil servants and abused for our walls foreign secretary. he criticised the inquiry, saying it set the threshold for bullying too low. in his first interview since resigning, he spoke to chris mason. is this a is this a stitch ...

tens of thousands of adults with disabilities and long—term illnesses are being sued by local councils for failing to pay their social care bills. and a pivotal day in welsh rugby — players are due to reveal whether they will strike during the six nations, over contractual disputes. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. shamima begum, who travelled to syria and joined the so—called islamic state group when she was just 15, so—called islamic state group when she wasjust 15...